Day 1: Arrive in Moscow

Day 2: The Kremlin

Begin the day amid the Kremlin Territory, site of many famous
and tragic events in Russia’s past. Visit two of the Kremlin’s three
cathedrals: Archangel, the royal burial church; Assumption, the
burial church of religious leaders; or Annunciation, the royal
baptism church. Visit the State Armory and dazzling exhibition
of the State Diamond Fund, containing the crown jewels used in
coronations right up to that of Nicholas II in 1896. Proceed to
Red Square, St. Basil’s Cathedral and Novodevichy Convent and
Memorial Cemetery, where such illustrious Russians as Chekhov,
Khrushchev and Yeltsin are buried.